Long Street Cape Town

Cape Town , Western Cape, South Africa

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  • Brilliant

    5

    jtc 0 contribution United States Jan 4, 2012

    Wonderful like everything else in South Africa. Especially fantastic was the impromptu dancing and singing by the talented locals...

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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction Long Street Cape Town

  • 1

    Resting and catching up in a beautiful city

    47 photos

    Entry containing 47 photos titled: View from our room of another hotel, V & A Waterfront, Working port waterfront turned tourist attraction, Looking out over port from road, Our one-bedroom apartment, Cheetah snagging gazelle in Botanical Gardens

  • 2

    'Captivating Cape Town'

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    Stage 1... Cape Town, the first leg of our World Discovery with no limits. Bright eyed and bushy tailed Sarah & I arrived early Sunday morning with a bank account full of cash and excitement running through our veins. We literally ran out of the airport only to be introduced to a cold, rainy Sunday morning. But that did no jar our enthusiasm, …

  • 3

    Crazy Cape

    Cape Town has a certain alure to both travellers and the capetonians alike. As a city of course it has a buzzing energy, but CT is different to other cities that I've visited. With its extraordinary situation curving around Table Mountain and pushed up against the sea, it is no wonder that there seems to be a powerful underlying force that causes …

Related BlogsLong Street Cape Town

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    New Years Eve - Cape Town Styley!

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    ... I felt priveleged to spend NY in such great company in such a great city. The taxi home dropped us at the bottom of Long Street as the road was closed due to the passing Coon Carnival which was a sight to behold. Me and Andy both thwarted pickpocketers ...

  • 2

    We arrived on Long street! Why's it so dead?

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    We have arrived baby. We weren't met by the busy Cape Town I had expected but by a quiet ghost town that seems to shut down on Sunday. Long Street, our home for the next six days is peaceful (I want my money back) nothing like we had been told, pretty ...

  • 3

    A Travel Buddy From Home

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    ... out our room, and make sure she makes it through her jet lag by going down to the Victoria and Albert Waterfront for lunch. South Africa has incredibly tasty cheap food and fantastic wine, so we indulge and then book ourselves on a sail boat for a sunset ...

  • 4

    fancy-free

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    I deliberately made no plans for my time in South Africa after the project - alone in this unknown country I wanted to do whatever I fancied. What I most needed now was to distance myself from what I'd just experienced. Torn between dying to get away ...

  • 5

    A few days in the Cape

    ... at 7am on Thursday and headed straight for the hostel. For those who know the city, we're staying at Cape Town Backpackers, which is just off Kloof Street, by a restaurant called Greens and a Nandos, and about a 5minute walk down to all the bars on Long ...

  • 6

    Onward to Cape Town

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    ... the laundry load from hell and head to Christine's apartment as her roommate is having a party.  It's dead so we head to Long Street to hit up a few bars.  Long Street reminds me of New Orleans in that each building has a balcony on which ...

  • 7

    In the Beginning...

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    ... that, some noodles and a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc. It was perfect and the whole bill came to £17.53. What a welcome to South Africa. Unfortunately the sun welcomed us a bit too vigorously and Steve got that pink, sun burnt look of a Brit abroad down ...

  • 8

    Cape Peninsula

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    ... lighthouse does provide spectacular views of the nature reserve below. On to the Cape of Good Hope which IS the most south-westernly tip of Africa, the winds (gale-force) were incredible and I did nearly go flying along with one man's camera who had ...

  • 9

    Around Cape Town

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    ... Zula's for some local S.A. music. So we headed to Long street on Sat night.   The bars, clubs, and restaurants along Long Street were packed, with lots of people in the street, and also local police patrolling, which was a nice surprise since we ...

  • 10

    Busy Day - V&A, Robben Island and Table Mountain

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    ... tour of the cells by a former prisoner which is also pretty hard hitting. I had no knowledge about the politics or history of South Africa and after the visit I now know perhaps, a little more but I still don't really understand it but what the ...